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02:36 pm
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*sigh*
What do you do about someone who won’t even try to understand you? Whom keeps putting most of the blame on you for things that happened? Whom is just not getting why I do certain things?
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Current Mood:  annoyed
Current Music: random tracks on iTunes
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01:09 pm
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Last day of the year...
End of the year already...esh how it's flown by. Seems not that long ago it was April when I got out of the military, less for the drive down to dads. Oh well.
I STILL don't have my AA certificate, which means I have to go yell at the military collage folks to find out the heck is up (once the part of their site that has their blooming contact information is back up that is). I kind of need that thing...ya know...to prove I have collage education for when I job hunting or start working on a second degree? Granted...with the depression we are in now, it is not easy for someone with a college education to get a job these days. All lay offs and store closings that have been happening does not help in this matter either! (nor do the number of illegals in the country, but I've already ranted about them on this journal)
No one in my family is looking forward to next year: so many uncertainities, from the crap going on in the middle east, the economic depression, to an unexperienced President-elect who may or may not break this country completely.
One bit of good news though is that I finally got word from the Va (veterians affairs), whom approved my disability claim and now I am getting a monthly check for my disabilities caused/aggravented by my time in the military. It's not enough to 'live' on naturally, but at least I have a form of income now.
Slowly plugging away at 'Chains of the Past' as well, up to Chap 37 now (finished chapter count calculated to be at 42 now). Unfortunately I have more story ideas I may write after that *groan*.
Hmm....I need new icons for here...*pokes old icons*
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09:32 am
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Ugh....
What the hell was it that made me sick last night? Was it dad's tacos (which never made me sick before)? That ice cream bar I ate a bit afterward? Or is it my first monthly in a few months just kicking my ass to make up for the months it didn't plague me? *groans and curls up in bed under her fake mink blanket*
*mumbles* Might as well gripe about a couple other things. The latest Halo fanfic I am writing is a freaking novel (32 Chaps and counting, with the outline I made of it having it finally end at 41 Chaps). The new book that came out on this fantasise throws a wrench into some of the background stuff I made up for a couple of Canon characters in my fic in terms Sangheili culture...and history in ones case. Good damn thing this fic is AU anyway, though it still sucks as I like to encorperate any offical lore into my fics that is available. Right now though, 'Chains of the Past' is just simply too big to go back and start adjusting things....
Now for a non-gripe: http://dragcave.net/user/Slaskia My current addiction. Fear their cuteness!
Current Mood:  sick
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07:14 am
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*ties to bite her tongue but fails*
Oh...lovely...Obama won...
No I am not happy about it, because all those people that voted him in do not know what they are getting this country into.
First...say goodbye to the Patriot Act and Homeland Security: two things that have ensured those damn terrorists didn't succeed in attacking us again. Expect another 9/11 soon....
Military budget cuts and pull out of Iraq and Afganistan. The Military will have even harder time protecting us from threats overseas (all that equipement they use cost money ya know?). Oh wait...it won't matter cause they'll be pulled out of Iraq and Afganistan anyway! Which means the terrorists will move right back in. Which means their confidence will spike and thus be embroadened to attack us again.
Amesty for all those illegal immigrants that shouldn't be here in the first place! Which means even fewer jobs for us legal citizens and for what jobs are available you are required to speak spanish! (at least in my state, and this is already happening. What this means is that there's going to be even more spanish speaking requirements!)
Spread the Wealth: this is going to go over well...either the fat cat CEOs won't be touched by it at all or they will throw such a fit it doesn't happen anyway. What this is he wants to do is Socialism people: what we earn through our own blood sweat and tears we should be able to keep all of it!
I do not trust a man that refuses to put his hand over his heart during the Pledge of Alligance or blanatly brushes off and disrepects the people that serve and protect this country (police and military) to be our President. It can only mean bad things for this country.
Gods...I hate politics...but I hate people that blindly vote for a person without doing their research more. Or because they fear being called a racist if they didn't vote for him: this isn't about the color of his skin folks...it's about what he stands for and what he stands for is not what I wanted to lead this country.
Current Mood:  disappointed
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08:32 am
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Stuff
We feared it would happen eventually, with how the economy is going. Dad was offered a 'buy out' at his job as the company he works for is trying to cut down on expenses. He accepted it, after doing a lot of research and asking the right questions: his last day at work he hasn't decided on yet, but it will be in Sept.
What does this mean for me and my bro? Well, obviously we are gonna have to cut back on expenses, tighten the o' belt. My plans of going to collage once I get my AA cert in Oct may have to be put on hold as I will likely have to see about a job (I was going to focus completely on school, but if I have to get a job then it will have to wait: I cannot stretch my attention like that),
Getting a job is going to be hard part. I have a good chance thanks to my military background and soon my AA cert, but my bro has been trying for years but has been unsuccessful, partly because he only has his high school cert. The real reason however is because most jobs out there a high school grad can get require that you know spanish! That is because we have a high hispanic population here (most of them likely illegal) and many of them refuse to learn how to speak English! Hell...we got at least two houses on my street alone that are full of these boozos (multiple families in a single family house: that can't be sanitary).
What is it with these guys? Immigrants from any other country are respectful enough to learn the national language (English), but not hispanics. And our country continues to 'accomadate' these people: more and more signs and papers have spanish translation and some don't even have an 'english' translation! Worse, not so long ago I learned that some schools are going to have a 'pure hispanic' class, meaning they will be taught completely in spanish and not going to teach them english. Ok, where is the pure French, Japaniese, Chinese, Italian, etc classes? I wish our government will grow some balls and actually make English are offical language and force these suckers to learn it.
I may be coming off as being a hater of hispanics, but that is not true. If a hispanic comes to this country legally and learns English, he or she has my full respect and I wish them well. But the others...especially the illegals...they need to be shipped back to their own damn country and we need to shut down our borders! Such people are only a drain on our resources!
Current Mood:  irate
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09:12 am
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Halo
Been obsessed with the Halo universe as of late and have been writing a fic set in it. It's extremely rough, with no proper begining: basically a 'just get this out of my head' story so far. The main character is the Arbiter (The Arbiter for those that are scratching their heads), whom I found to be a much more interesting character then Master Chief (again Master Chief).
What little plot I have basically intells the Arbiter trying to figure out what his new purpose is, now that his people are allied with the humans and the Convenant (which his species once belonged to) is all but destroyed. There's a little more to it then that, but I won't say for now, since the story is in rough shape and may even get 'presentable' enough to post. Well, huge chunks of it are presentable, as I am only missing the begining and a small section in the 'middle' thus far. This is a cross over fic with one of my worlds, since it is possible for either to be in this 'universe', especially since I decided a long time ago that one of them is no longer set on Earth.
Like I said, I do not know if I'll ever post it anywhere online, as I don't know if I'll finish it. Parts of it I already know I need to rewrite, to at least flesh it out more. I do know that if I do manage to post it on FF.net I likely get reviews of Master Chief fanatics complaining about how Master Chief doesn't have a big role in it (truth be told...I find it extremely difficult to write a character that is really bland and boring to me. Plus it's rather ironic that I can identify with the Arbiter much easier then MC, and MC is a human!). Yeah well, tough luck guys...this is an Arbiter story.
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10:05 am
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Whew
Finally, my car is registered for this state and I have my new license. That's one less thing (or two if you want to be technical about it) I have to worry about.
The license was the iffest part, reason being was that it was expired. Now, while I was in the military this wasn't an issue as military are exempted from having to renew our civilian licenses. Upon leaving the military however, depending on the state, you have anywhere from 2 weeks to 90 days to renew it if it expired while in service. In my case I had 90 days.
The stickler in my case however, was that for the state my license was from, they delete the records of the license after 15 months if you don't renew it: DMVs need to be able to bring up my records to give me a new license (my license expired in 2006, so you see my problem). Fortunately, it seemed my home state (where I moved) still had records of when I got my learners permit ages ago, so that helped. What also helped was that I had e-mailed the DMV previously inquiring about this special situation of mine and I brought a copy of the reply with me to show the clerk that tried to tell me I needed to do the written and driving test (the e-mail reply didn't state this, so there).
So it took a little longer then it should have, but it's done now. Don't have to worry about anything DMV related until next year and I can do that online.
Current Mood:  relieved
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04:34 pm
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farewell Kuro
One of my bettas, Kuro, has finally died. I say 'finally' because he's been fighting a case of dropsy for months and nothing I did seemed to get rid of it. I was going to see about euthinising him, but couldn't find the stuff you can use to euthinize a fish (clove oil is one of them): it was only a matter of time anyway before the died. Poor fella was swelled up like a waterballon almost, which is almost clearly a sign of kidney failure from what I've read. So only Lily is left and besides changing color on me (he was almost completely white when I got him but now has patches of black/dark grey on him: bettas seem to love doing that to you after you buy them) he's perfectly healthy.
In other stuff I'm pretty much finished unpacking and only found one other thing that was busted: my CD stereo player (CD player part no longer worked). I've decided to retire my older computer, both to save on bandwith and power usage, not to mention it was starting to act funny from time to time. Fortunately since I had the common sense to backup my info on that machine it was easy to transfer any important info to ths one. Only thing left to change over is my printer/scanner (and pray it doesn't get into arguements with my tablet like some people said they may do).
Dad has the next two weeks off and next week he's going to accompany me when I go do all the stuff I need to do to get my car registered and my new license. Hopefully the whole process won't be too much of a pain in the ass and I won't have to take the driving test....
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08:22 am
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Mer
Well one thing off the bat was broken when my stuff was delievered: one of my computer desks. Some bastard along the way decided to completely break down both my desks and was too lazy to figure out how to take one apart properly. The result was broken pins, missing screws and ripped out chunks of wood where the pins go in. Those pins can't be replaced from what I know, as they are specially made for 'put-together-yourself' furniture pieces. Surprizingly we were able to do some rigging and save the desk, but it will never be as study as it once was. Also fortunately it wasn't the desk I was really interested in keeping: was going to give that one to my bro to replace his computer desk, but found out after I arrived here that it was way to big to fit in his room with how he has his room set up.
Besides that, I am still unpacking and sorting stuff: even after donating a bunch of crap I still have too much crap. And no I haven't tried to turn on my computers yet, kind of trying to make room in my room for them first before hooking them up and letting my bro's more computer savy friends check them out to make sure they are clean (we have a home network set up here and bro and his friends are the maintainers).
Current Mood: annoyed
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08:01 am
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Finally....
My stuff is being delievered today.
Now the big question is how much of it (especially my computers!) are still intact....
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05:37 am
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Made it
Finally here in Vegas, my new home (or old home depending on how you look at it since I grew up here). Ok, technically I got here yesterday morning, but the net was having issues so I didn't even try to get on here.
The Betas survived the trip, though it looks like Kuro will not last much longer due to dropsy (an internal infection he's been fighting for months now and usually kills the fish). I'd love to put them back in their own bowls (instead of those tiny travel containers) but the movers have those and I have yet to call them to let them know I'm here and can deliever my stuff. Part of the reason I haven't yet is because I need to figure out where to put some of the heavier furniture stuff BEFORE they get here (I'd rather not have to move them around after the fact as dad's in his 70s and bro has issues with his back and legs).
Most of the heavies I know how to situate in my room, but one item, one of my computer desks, I was going to give to my bro but it turns out that with the way he has his room set up this desk wouldn't fit. Probally will just put it in storage, but will talk it over with dad when he gets back from work today (did a little bit last night but noting conclusive).
One other thing I did decide is that I'll wait until next week to deal with the car related matters (registering for the state and new license), to give myself time to recover from the trip in case I end up having to retake the driving test (long story, will tell another time).
Current Mood: relieved
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07:53 am
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Last day
This will be the last day I'll have access to the net for a while (well I probably could techniqually still access it tommorrow until the movers come).
Bro came in just fine btw though he's already going stir crazy due to the lack of 'mountians' in the area (he's not used to seeing nothing on the horizon lol).
Today we will be doing as much cleaning up as we can and 'try' to get the Salvation Army to come pick up a couple of large furniture pieces I'm not taking with me. If they can't today or tomorrow, bro and I will have to dismantle these times and trash them (which would be a shame really). Besides that we sorted as much as we are able to sort and only have a few more things to donate/recycle.
Also today we are going to pick up a GPS system to help with the trip itself.
Now if bro would stop trying to destroy the shedder I actually want to keep and give to dad.....
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06:51 am
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Merf
Landlord came by last night and ask that I have the place 'presentable' by the 15th. WTF? Couldn't you wait one more freaking day (movers come on the 16th)!? Yeah yeah I know you are under pressure from your own boss to keep as many apartments full as possible. But it's STILL annoying!
On a somewhat related note, my bro will be flying in today to help me finish up this place and drive accompany me on the drive down. Biggest issue is that he has a fear of flying and almost changed his mind about coming at all. Funny thing is though is that he flew up here a couple times before with no real issues, but he says his fear is really high this time for some reason. I just hope it's not an omen or something....
Current Mood: annoyed
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07:43 am
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Hey guess what
It's snowing here. In May.
Only the second time I've seen this though it's a 'meh' thing to me now. However wouldn't it trip my bro out if it did this while he was here next week? He very rarely sees snow in winter let alone spring. *evil laugh*
Current Mood:  mischievous
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12:03 pm
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Getting closer
Services (internet, phone, electric) cut off has been scheduled and I am still slowly (too slowly actually...) picking away at my junk. Things will pick up when my bro gets here next week, though I hope to actually do more of this before then.
( Slight venting here )
Current Mood:  blah
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03:15 pm
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Mereep....
Esh...good thing I didn't let my procastination streak keep hold on this one...could have come to a firy end down the road...literally.
What the heck am I talking about? Well ok here's the story. You know I'm moving soon, what I probably haven't mentioned (too lazy to look at previous posts :P) is that I am going to drive to my new location (going back home to family). A distance of over 1600 miles.
Now what's one thing that you really should do before going on such a trip? That's right, have your car checked out so it won't go ka-put while in the middle of no where. Been putting it off and finally today I decided to go to one of the stores here that do this service. Actually I was just intending to replace the 'donut' with a real tire and have the brakes and tires checked. Ended up deciding to have them do a full inspection...and it's damn good thing I did. Why?
Well it turned out I had an oil leak, one that leaked oil into the gasket where the spark plugs are, so the spark plugs were sitting in oil. Not really an 'issue' for short trips, but for the trip I'm going to be on, well...what do you get when you have a hot spark plug sitting in oil? I don't think I need to answer that....
So they replaced the gasket, washers and the spark plugs, did a brake fluid flush and a couple other things. Cost me over half a grand in total for all this, but between that and becoming a hot metal fireball on the road later I'd rather fork over the moolah. It was worth it too, for I noticed an immedate difference in performance with my car. Had more kick to it and just 'felt' different, a good kind of different.
Now if the gas prices would go down I'll be all set...
Well a girl can dream can't she?
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10:03 am
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The things you find...
While going through all your crap to figure out what to keep, toss, or donate.
I STILL had my Super NES? WTF? (no sign of the cords for it yet though...so I may end up tossing it)
I also found my pair of roller blades I thought I had donated already. Guess I didn't eh? Oh well, they are going into the donation pile now....
Edit: and I found a Pokemon starter deck. What the hell was I smoking when I got that?
Current Mood:  working
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05:20 pm
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FREEEDOOOMMM!!!!
Finally out....finally out of the military.
It probably won't really set in for a few days at least though.
I'm betting on Monday....
Current Mood:  cheerful
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10:22 am
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Big change ahead
It's been ages I know, just either haven't had anything to say or didn't want to talk about it here. But now I have something to say...and it's something I want to talk about.
The short of it: I'm separating from the military and it will happen within two months tops.
I was already planning on not reenlisting, which would mean I would have been getting out in August. However the reason for this suddenly 'excelleration' is because of issues I've been having that been making it difficult for me to continue to adapt to military life. The big one is that I've been dianosted with Avoidant Personality Disorder (which actually only just beat out another disorder: Schizoid Personality Disorder, according to the test I took at the therapest's office, so you could say I have both....). This resulted in the decision to highly recommend I be medically separated, which I concluded was for the best: to continue on would result in just more problems and likely a not so favorable type of discharge if I waited until my normal date of separation.
This way, my discharge will be honorable, so I'll get my GI bill benefits and there's a good chance I can get disability benefits (not only for this but also the Tinnitus I have as well) as it 'developed' while I was in the military.
I admit that the fact this is coming much sooner then I was expecting initially is a bit daunting. After all: the military has been my only job for over 12 years and now I not only have to find a job on the outside, but apply for my own health/dental insurance. What I want to do as well is see about getting a Bachelors in Visual Arts: there's one offered at the Uni here in town.
One big hurdle though, is my own family. They all want me to move back home. I love them dearly and I apprecate their williness to let me live there again, but I feel I'll miss opportunities if I go back. Not only that, if I do go back I fear I may get too comfortable and not do jack squat with myself: my father already basically said he doesn't care if that happens (he wants another mature person in the house). But I care. Yes dad I know you are getting on in age...and yes bro I know you told me to do it for dad if not for myself, but I feel I would be cheating myself if I do that.
Current Mood:  anxious
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04:27 pm
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To break an addiction
While out and about today I came to the realization that the net pretty much takes up alot of my free time, keeping me from doing things I should and want to do. Things like cleaning the apartment, art projects that are sitting around collecting dust (and virtual dust) mainly. So in an effort to not only reduce my dependancy on the net and actually get more non-net related things done, I am making Tuesday and Thursday afternoons 'no net' times.
Why just the afternoon and not the whole day? Well my job requires me to use the net at times, so I can't exactly cut out the net at work. Think about it...my 'no net day' excuse probably wouldn't fly too well with my boss if a suspense requires the use of the net to complete ;).
For the two afternoons a week this self imposed restriction is in effect I 'can' still use the computer(s) as long as I don't interact with something that requires the net (windows updates and live updates for NAV are exceptions). You just won't be seeing me anywhere on the net: LiveJournal, DA...not even IMs and EQ2.
It will be hard, as getting on the net is the first thing I do when I get home (and I'm sure I'll have my days of relapse), but I will accomplish this....
Current Mood:  determined
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